After a day of scrounging around the internet and pulling information form various incomplete resources, I managed to get Paint Tool SAI running on Linux AND my Wacom Bamboo Capture's pen pressure works! Please note, that this is a rather recent development for PlayOnLinux. Now, I'm not a linux user, but the promise of running PST on an OS that wouldn't kill my system resources was too good to pass up. The good folks who made PlayOnLinux have added a patch to their program* that allows pen pressure to work with PTS when running it in Linux.

Hence, most of my artwork is still done on pen and paper. It worked, but turning on either version of Windows would drain my mac's resources to the point of hair pulling uselessness.

Next I tried using my tablet in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (which I used to use for work). Thus rendering my Bamboo Capture tablet pretty much useless. I found that I could run PTS on my make using Wine or PlayOnMac, but when I did this, PTS would not use my drawing tablet's pen pressure. The next best program was Fire Alpaca, but it had serious problems with crashing. I own a Macbook Pro but I found that Paint Tool SAI (PTS) was just the best tool for getting art done.

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